Biden Goes Nuclear
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZaUDKejZ_g[/youtube]
And here is the transcript after the fold, because it is just as good when you read it.
Transcript
Biden: They announced the unemployment figures nationwide. For the eighth month in a row, Americans have lost jobs. We have lost 604,000 jobs in a America, just this calendar year. We’re in a position where we had 84,000 lost jobs, shattered dreams, broken homes that occurred as a consequence of this loss of work just in the month of August. We now have 6.1 percent of the American work force idle. And you know what that means.
When a man or woman loses their job, they not only lose their income, they lose their sense of dignity, they lose who their identity, who they are. That’s how we identify ourselves. That’s how we’re brought up. That’s how in my neighborhood and yours, you’re identified. You’re identified by your willingness to work hard, your willingness to do the right thing, your willingness to show up every day and provide for your family. And so it’s not merely a lost job. It’s a lost sense of identity that occurs.
This ain’t your father’s Republican Party, by the way. This is a different Republican Party.
But, I’ll tell you, it’s not so much of what I heard in the Republican convention. When you heard John speak last night. It’s not so much what I heard, when I heard part of what the Governor had to say, the vice presidential candidate. It’s what I didn’t hear.
(Applause)
THE SILENCE – THE SILENCE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WAS DEAFENING. IT WAS DEAFENING. ON JOBS, ON HEALTH CARE, ON ENVIRONMENT, ON ALL THE THINGS THAT MATTER TO THE PEOPLE IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS I GREW UP IN. DEAFENING!
(Standing Ovation)
Ladies and gentlemen, THEIR AMERICA IS NOT THE AMERICA I LIVE IN. THEY SEE SOMETHING DIFFERENT THAN I SEE.
Ladies and gentlemen, literally, those of you, I can’t swear to this because I didn’t see every bit of every speech. But I asked my staff to check. Do any of you recall either candidate on the Republican ticket utter the phrase, middle class?
Biden: No!
Biden: Did any of you hear them utter the phrase, health care and how we’re going to help?
Biden: No!
Biden: Did you hear them talk about aid to get kids to college?
Crowd: No!
Biden: Did you hear them talk about aid to education?
Crowd: No!
Biden: Did you hear them putting more cops on the street to make us safer?
Crowd: No!
Biden: I didn’t hear a thing, a thing, about any of the things that matter to the lives of the people of my hometown of Scranton….
Rick Davis, John’s campaign manager, said two days into the convention, he said “this election is not about issues.” That’s what he said. And everything I saw at the convention demonstrated that.
It was about how well placed — and boy she is good — how a left jab can be stuck pretty nice. It’s about how Barack Obama is such a bad guy.
It’s about how in fact, how in fact, they got great quips. Man, they’re like the kids you know when you went to school and you were very proud of the new belt or the shoes you had, and there was always one kid in the class who said, “oh, are they your brother’s?”
Crowd: Yeah.
Remember that kid? That’s what this is reminding me of. “Oh, I love your dress, was that your mother’s?”
You know what I’m talking about.
What do you talk about, when you have nothing to say?!
What do you talk about when you CANNOT EXPLAIN THE LAST EIGHT YEARS OF FAILURE?!
(Standing Ovation)
What do you talk about?! What do you talk about?!
You talk about the other guy.
Crowd: Giv’em Hell, Joe!
Biden: Remember what Harry Truman used to say. The crowd would yell, “giv’em hell, Harry.” And he’d say, “I’m not gonna to giv’em hell, I’m gonna tell them the truth, and they’re gonna think it’s HELL.”
(Standing Ovation)
Go go Joe! It’s on now! I still can’t believe all the hate-mongering from the Republicans. I hope they face a backlash, but I’m not hopeful. Anyway, I’m not sure what to think of the high ratings for McCain’s speech.
Well, I watched the speech, and I ain’t voting for him. Indeed, it was a horrible boring speech, so it may be a good thing that that many people saw it. It probably put most of America asleep.
Contrast that with Obama, who gave a great speech.
You know, it’s speeches like this that made me a Biden supporter way back in the primaries before getting behind Obama. Though I still plan to vote for the ticket the way it is and think they’ll do just fine, I certainly wouldn’t have minded the flip-flop version with Biden at the top. One person’s “gaffes” is another person’s telling it like it is.
Holy cow. Joe is great. He’s right, too. She behaved just like that kid in school.
Yes!!!! This is why Obama chose Joe Biden to be his VP candidate. “I’m going to tell them the truth and they’ll think it’s hell.”
Goddamn he’s good.
Embrace the anger. That’s what I say…
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you going to be up for a while…?
yeah…gonna watch Hard Knocks!
That’s why my first ticket was Biden/Richardson and my second was Obama/Biden…. That and the fact that Obama after hearing that Biden dropped out of the Pres. race said that he thought he’d make a great VP.
Seeing this video this morning got me inspired to make this.
Nemski — that needs to be posted at dKos today. It is brilliant!
Poor Joe. He really must not have watched the same convention I did because John McCain did, in fact talk about unemployment and healthcare (among other things). Dems just don’t like the solutions Republicans favor.
And Poor Joe. He can’t attack Sarah Palin the way he’d like to ’cause he knows what a bully he’d look like. So, instead he whines and complains because Republicans told the truth about Barack Obama.
BTW, Republicans don’t talk about “middle class” because they don’t believe in “classes” of people. Oddly enough, they just think of everybody as “Americans.” It’s a quaint concept, I know, and one that doesn’t get Dems salivating like class warfare.
cass, I’m not a dKos type of guy. If someone would like to, go for it.
Too bad — it really is that good!
And I love how Joe (or anyone ) really doesn’t need to attack Palin — all you really have to do is just keep watching her keep connected to the Alaska version of the Culture of Corruption — Troopergate and the lying about the Bridge to Nowhere keeps reminding folks why the GOP cannot be trusted to govern.
Joe nailed it. McCain’s got no platform. He’s no maverick and Palin’s a pawn. His only remaining hope is to discredit the Dems and he can’t do that without consistently lying.
Palin spoke yesterday off a prepared sheet of paper with McCain at her side. Quite a difference…
Yeah, she didn’t spend a lot of time “umming” and “ahing” and “you knowing.”
I love the argument that somehow, Obama’s reading skills are better.
Obama spoke to thousands in February for about 45 minutes in Rodney Square without a single note and without a teleprompter.
I know that the Republican talking points are that Obama needs a script (and Sharon does a wonderful job reading the Republican script), but, as with most of the RNC platform, there is no substance there.
I have never made that particular argument. But the argument I will make, which I believe is supported by evidence, is that Obama’s thinking and reasoning skills are better that McCain’s, Palin’s, and even Biden’s.
Actually, Sharon, I’d love to discuss something other that Palin’s reading skills. Perhaps if she gave an interview and let everyone knew where she stood on the issues we’d have more to debate.
I want to hear this repeated.
And every ummm, ahhhh, or you know was followed directly with a lie. That’s her job. McCain has no credit with the masses, for the moment she does. Their only hope is that if she tells the same lie enough times a few people may believe it.
Palin is able to read a speech. Since Republicans believe this is enough to make her qualified to be VP then McCain must not be qualified because he wasn’t able to make a good speech that was in the works for months. It’s kind of interesting that the GOP is making this election all about biography. Hilzoy did an analysis showing that McCain talked about himself 50% of the time and the state of country 43% of the time, while Obama talked about himself 14% of the time and the state of the country 86% of the time.
Republicans can’t win on issues. McCain had a great opportunity Thursday – he had even more viewers to his speech than Barack Obama did – and he did not outline any proposal that was new or mavericky, it was all standard Republican boilerplate.
I also read that Palin is using a teleprompter in her campaign appearances, basically giving parts of her speech again (does she do the part where she says community organizers don’t do any work?). It’s no wonder that McCain won’t let her be interviewed on TV. Besides reading ability, what are her qualifications?
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_09/014585.php